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Amazon.com suffers outage: Nearly $5M down the drain?

Amazon.com, the multi-billion online retail website, experienced an outage of unknown proportions on Thursday afternoon.

By Brandon Butler | 31 January, 2013 21:17

Tags: Amazon Web Services, reddit, amazon.com, Amazon.com outage, Cloud, twitter, cloud computing, internet, Amazon outage
How long will big-name customers like Netflix put up with Amazon cloud outages?

On Christmas Eve as Netflix customers cuddled up to watch their favorite holiday movies and TV shows with friends and family, many experienced a problem. Netflix was down.

By Brandon Butler | 03 January, 2013 23:09

Tags: Amazon Cloud, Amazon cloud outage, Cloud, netflix, cloud computing, internet, Amazon outage, Netflix outage
Amazon cites cause of recent outage, issues refunds

An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers, which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit, Imgur, AirBNB and Salesforce.com's Heroku platform, according to a postmortem issued by Amazon.

By Brandon Butler | 01 November, 2012 20:51

Tags: AWS, Salesforce.com, Cloud outage, AWS outage, heroku, cloud computing, internet, Amazon outage, Amazon Cloud
Startup claims it saw early signs of Amazon's cloud outage

Almost two hours before Amazon Web Services publicly acknowledged an outage that brought down websites such as Reddit, Imgur and Heroku, application monitoring startup Boundary claims it started noticing the problem.

By Brandon Butler | 26 October, 2012 15:43

Tags: predictive analytics, application management, Networking, infrastructure management, Cloud outage, heroku, application performance management, cloud computing, internet, management, Boundary, security, software, Amazon outage, system management, Amazon Web Services, APM
Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others

Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service is experiencing degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others.

By Brandon Butler | 22 October, 2012 19:48

Tags: Amazon Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloud outage, AWS outage, cloud computing, internet, Amazon outage

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Most memorable tech industry apologies of 2012: From Apple to Google to Microsoft

Tech vendors have been as bombastic as ever promoting the magical and amazing things their latest smartphones, cloud computing wares and network gear can do. When things go wrong, they're naturally a little less visible, but plenty of companies have sucked it up and done the right thing this year (perhaps with a little legal prodding here and there) and publicly apologized for minor and major customers inconveniences.

By Bob Brown | 08 November, 2012 20:53

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Networking, wireless, infrastructure management, hardware systems, Data Center, internet, cloud computing, Gmail outage, management, Apple, RIM BlackBerry OS 10 delay, corporate issues, consumer electronics, smartphones, Apple Maps problems, technology company apologies, Amazon outage, business issues

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